Web page iconThe subgroup will review, maintain, and expand the Harvard Biomedical Data Management website, created to provide a central location for sharing information about best practices and resources for the management of biomedical research data at Harvard Medical School, the Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health, the Harvard School of Dental Medicine, and Harvard-affiliated hospitals. This subgroup will keep the website up-to-date, and oversee larger projects to develop new content for the site. This project will also work to improve the usability and aesthetics of the website. Using feedback from website users and shared expertise from subgroup members, the website will remain well positioned to offer educational resources and information to the Harvard biomedical community.

Reports

2024 Goals

  1. Better understand user behavior and interactions with website content by integrating heatmaps and evaluating the results
  2. Modify RDMWG resources and documentation to ensure compliance with new Harvard accessibility standards
  3. Update comparison matrix for repositories, integrating interactive website features
  4. Conduct an annual review of the website content, links, and members list

Accomplishments

  • 2023

    1. Better understand user behavior and interactions with website content by integrating heatmaps and evaluating the results
    2. Proactively market specific web pages based on trend information from website analytics
    3. Update website calendar events to coincide with research data lifecycle (completed)
    4. Finalize website reorganization stemming from 2022 usability report (completed)
    5. Conduct an annual review of the website content, links, and members list (completed)
  • 2022

    1. Finalize and publish the "Website Usability Report 2.0" to the website and distribute (completed)
    2. Better understand user behavior and interactions with the website content by integrating Hotjar heatmaps to key website pages and evaluating results (completed)
    3. Target marketing efforts of the "Biomedical Research Data Management" website, encouraging the use of specific web pages (completed)
    4. Expand presence on video platforms, including Panopto (completed)
    5. Conduct an annual review of the website content, links, and members list
  • 2021

    1. Market "Biomedical Research Data Management" website refresh, highlighting introduced original content, resources, and media (completed)
    2. Complete edits based on soft launch review (completed)
    3. Develop and follow website maintenance schedule for content updates (completed)
    4. Run user testing sessions to guide design refinement and improve the overall experience of users (completed)
    5. Publish an approved LMA RDMWG logo to be used on the website (completed)
    6. Explore features within new Drupal 8 platform (completed)
  • 2020

    1. Finalize and publish the Website Usability Report to our website and distribute (completed)
    2. Develop plan for website migration to new Drupal 8 platform (completed)
    3. Execute plan to migrate website to new Drupal 8 platform (completed)
    4. Retire old website on OpenScholar (completed)
    5. Recruit (1-3) more members to the subgroup (completed)
  • 2019

    1. Publish all subgroups’ annual goals to the website to promote transparency (completed)
    2. Complete a usability report for the website (completed)
    3. Website updates, including suggestions from usability report and from other subgroups (completed)
    4. Analyze the results of the reformatting prior to and after the report
    5. Recruit (1-3) more members to the subgroup